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Management Team

GC management team comprises key persons who combine expertise and experience from various fields of Consulting and Development Project management in the relevant fields.

Setenane Nkopane

Setenane Nkopane
Managing Director (SACNASP No: 400022/13)

Setenane has BSc. Honours & MSc. Degrees in Environmental Science and Management from the University of Cape Town. He worked with the Department of Minerals and Energy, Limpopo Province from 1997 – 2005 as Deputy Director: Mine Rehabilitation, and acted as Director: Mineral Development Limpopo Province from 1999 - 2002. His responsibility included: Regulation and assessment of impacts mining operations on the environment in the province; implementation and maintenance of environment systems in mining industry; rehabilitation of land disturbed by mining operations including prevention, control and combating pollution; administration of the EMP approval process, and compliance thereof, and controlling of mine closure. He also worked as Environmental Manager at De Beers, Venetia Mine, South Africa from 2006 - 2008. Venetia Mine was an ISO 14001 certified mine. He is currently the Managing Director of Gudani Consulting (Environmental and Social Scientists), and has undertaken various environmental assessment, socio-economic, rural development and water resource management, public participation and capacity projects in South Africa.

Setenane has offered part-time lecturing at the University of the Limpopo, post-graduate levels for the following courses: Mining Environmental Law, Environmental Management Systems, and Land, Water Resource and Waste Management – 2001-2003 - Faculty of Law; Mining Environmental Law and Management: Faculty of Science – 2001 – 2005.

Setenane is members of the International Association of Impact Assessment – South Africa Affiliate (IAIA-SA), and the IAIA-SA Limpopo Regional Chairperson for 2012 -2014.